Uluru - Field of Light

Field of Light Dinner

• Saturday night finally arrived and we picked up by coach in our finery (walking shoes, pants recommended due to potential bitey's) on a sunny, balmy clear sky night with a nearly full moon which was just rising. Off to the Field of Light dinner which was our "special" night for David's impending 60th and a thank you to Pete and Sarah for all their hard work over years but particularly the last 6 months of Mark's mother's life. 
• The Field of Light is an art installation by UK artist Bruce Munro. He loved in Australia for 8 years before  returning to the UK via Uluru. He has had an image of this installation since and in fact made a small one which was shown in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Since 2004 he has done these in various places, but at Uluru he is bringing it "home ".
• It comprises 50,000 light stems covering an area of 49,000 square metres or nearly 7 football fields. It is solar powered and all materials are reusable and recycled.
• We started with sparkling wine and canapés as the sun set over Uluru (oh we have done that already!! ) and could see all the stems waiting for the night to fall! We enjoyed some local indigenous dancing from a front row position although some cheeky chinese girl pushed her way in! We are used to that. 
• Then to our table clothed dinner table with crockery glasses all set out - perfect there was 10 of us and that made a table! 
• Mostly a buffet dinner which was nice with lots of options and even sweet moist prawns- where did they come I wondered. Everything had an Australian theme- think wattle seed, bush tomatoes, lemon myrtle, davidson plums, kangaroo, emu, crocodile. Plenty of wine to pair with food! 
• Then bit by bit the lights came on -first white then changing to different colours - purple, red, green , yellow and each light would change several times. The moon was up and for a while we could still see Uluru behind all the flowers. It was spectacular and finally we walked along paths through the Field of Ligh to our coaches waiting to the us home! 
• Well worth the 3000 plus kms and the dollars!  
• Sunday morning some had hangovers AGAIN! Adelaide,But willing helpers to take down the annexe which was surprisingly quick compared to putting the damn thing up! 
• Pete and Sarah had already headed for Adelaide via Coober Pedy, David,Ginna, Sue and Steve went to the Olgas before heading back to Alice aso it was a two vehicle convey back to Alice for the remainder.
• We all had time to see Daniel do his singing gig at the Casino beer bar and we were not the only ones clapping and cheering etc! He's very good and some of the women old and young really like him! Not just his mother in law. 
• Back for final BBQ this time for 8 not ten and then monday morning after breakfast it was good bye to Sally's brothers.
• Rest time at last!  

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